Summary: Non-signatory Barbados has never commented on cluster munitions or its position on acceding to the convention, but it voted in favor of a United Nations (UN) resolution promoting the convention in December 2018. Barbados is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.

Policy

Barbados has not yet acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

Barbados did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention. It has never made an official statement to elaborate its views on banning cluster munitions or attended a meeting on the topic.

In December 2018, Barbados voted in favor of key UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions urging states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to “join as soon as possible.” [1] It has voted in favor of the annual UN resolution promoting the convention since it was first introduced in 2015.

Barbados has also voted in favor of UNGA resolutions expressing outrage at the use of cluster munitions in Syria, most recently in December 2018. [2]

Barbados is party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It has not joined the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling

Barbados is not known to have used, produced, transferred, or stockpiled cluster munitions.